Steve Sem-Sandberg: Chosen Ones
Chosen Ones
Buch
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 08/2017
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781250132260
- Bestellnummer: 4270015
- Umfang: 576 Seiten
- Gewicht: 638 g
- Maße: 220 x 143 mm
- Stärke: 39 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.8.2017
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by Sem-Sandberg's sharp sense of the absurd.The Am Spiegelgrund Clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria during WWII, the clinic's doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants.
Through the eyes of a child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, award-winning novelist Steve Sem-Sandberg explores the very meaning of survival in this profoundly moving and dramatic novel that bears witness to oppression and injustice during an intolerable period of Austria's past.